A Cedar Rapids man is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl on three occasions. Brian J. Hamilton, 20, of 2525 Linwood St. SW, has been charged with three counts of third-degree sexual abuse. Police said the sex on March 26, March 27 and March 29 was illegal due to the girl’s age. The incidents allegedly [...]
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An Iowa woman has been arrested in a blackmail plot for allegedly trying to get Discovery Communications Inc. to cancel the TLC show “19 Kids and Counting” or pay her $10,000. The woman is accused of threatening to release photos of a cast member in “apparently intimate situations” to a magazine. Teresa Hunt, of Bettendorf, [...]
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CEDAR RAPIDS – A Linn County inmate has a new charge against him after authorities said he chipped a small hole through the window in his cell. Darryl C. Tyson, 21, was charged this week with fourth-degree criminal mischief after jail staff discovered the damage Friday. He has been in jail since July, awaiting trial [...]
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An 18-year-old Ottumwa man faces a murder charge in a fatal stabbing. Ottumwa Police Chief Jim Clark says in a news release that officers had been sent to the report of a stabbing around 3 p.m. Sunday. They found 34-year-old Andy Madren suffering from several wounds. Clark says Madren was taken to Ottumwa Regional Health [...]
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The driver of a bus carrying people from Chicago to Iowa City and Des Moines has been charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated, second offense. The Iowa State Patrol pulled over the MegaBus on Friday night near Iowa City. The driver, 52-year-old Carl Smiley, of Chicago, was arrested. Des Moines television station KCCI says [...]
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The former principal of an elementary school in Dubuque pleaded not guilty Wednesday afternoon to charges that he produced, distributed, received and possessed child pornography by, among other things, secretly filming boys using the bathroom at his school. Robert Burke, 43, was arrested June 3 after law enforcement agents raided his home in Dubuque and [...]
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A Coralville woman who killed her 2-year-old son and tried to kill her 7-year-old son has lost an appeal of her conviction, meaning her mandatory life sentence in prison will stand. Michelle Kehoe, who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity but was found to have had the mental capacity to know right from wrong [...]
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A Cedar Rapids police officer rescued a 3-year-old boy who crawled through a window and onto a porch roof Thursday morning. Neighbors spotted the boy around 9 a.m. on the roof at 424 10th St. NW, saying “Hi” to anyone who passed by. He sat near the edge of the slanted roof, with his feet [...]
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UPDATE: A co-owner of Woody’s Show Club pleaded guilty and was sentenced on a lesser charge Friday in Linn County District Court for employing underage girls to dance at the strip bar in 2010. Bryan Bresler, 32, of Cedar Rapids, pleaded guilty to exhibiting persons, a serious misdemeanor, and was given a deferred judgment and [...]
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A second man has been arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a woman at a campground this week. Thomas R. Auner, 49, of 640 Berkshire Lane in North Liberty, was arrested Thursday and faces a charge of third-degree sexual abuse for an incident Sunday night at Scales Pointe Campground, 1850 Scales Bend Road, near Coralville Lake. [...]
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